Tag Archives: 2020.05

I was really hoping that Mr Johnson was going to announce last night that we could take our children to their grandparents’ house as part the relaxed lockdown measures. Unfortunately that is not what he said. I am disappointed.

The children introduced Stephen to their new game called “Rock Paper Scissors Beehive Shoe”. Stephen being Stephen, he couldn’t just leave it as a silly idea and pushed the children to come up with proper rules for the game.

The children woke up early and decided to move all of James’s things in to Genevieve’s room. On the plus side they were playing nice and quietly (for once), but the downside is that I’ve got to tidy it all up again!

Before bed, there was just enough time to pop up to see the friendly neighbourhood monkey. He was in full VE Day celebration mode so we joined him for a salute. James insisted on using both hands!

We took a break from the gardening to enjoy some well-earned ice lollies. Genevieve also took the opportunity to sunbathe.

Genevieve did some brilliant sequencing in 5s and re-wrote an ending to her story. Oh no wait. Getting her to write that was ridiculous. Ughh. I had forgotten. It was like pulling teeth. Or getting blood out of a stone. Lockdown teaching is challenging.

The kids and I decided to go for a walk. It was so enjoyable. We played tag, found flowers and posed for selfies/shadow photos. I love when we can all be so silly and laugh like that. I hope that’s what they remember when they think about being home during lockdown.

We survived and got through the day. That’s the important thing.

I felt it was important to bring out the big guns with entertaining the kids today so we built dens with some special den building sheets I had purchased at the start of lockdown. I had been promising to do this with them for a while so they were most excited when the dens finally went up.

We all went for a lovely walk which was the first time the whole family had been out of the house together since Stephen got sick. It was so enjoyable, even if I did have to run back to the house with James who decided he was desperate for the loo.